[Gcl-devel] Re: [Maxima] attempting to rebuild Maxima with GCL

From:

Camm Maguire

Subject:

[Gcl-devel] Re: [Maxima] attempting to rebuild Maxima with GCL

Date:

27 Jan 2004 12:30:04 -0500

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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2

Greetings! While I'm not precisely sure of the nature of your
problem, current GCL cvs compiles cuurent maxima CVS (just checked).
If you are on Debian, the latest (stable branch) GCL cvs is 2.6.1-22.
Just install, export GCL_ANSI=t (maxima requires ansi mode), and do
maxima's ./configure && make.
You can build gcl yourself by
export CVS_RSH=ssh
export CVSROOT=:ext:address@hidden:/cvsroot/gcl
cvs co -r Version_2_6_1 -d gcl-2.6.1 gcl
cd gcl-2.6.1
./configure --enable-ansi (if you have libgmp3.so, add --enable-dynsysgmp)
make
Please let me know if problems persist.
We are about to release this as 2.6.2, but hope to squash one
remaining windows only bug first.
Take care,
Robert Dodier <address@hidden> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to rebuild Maxima (cvs version of about 2003/11/28)
> with GCL 2.6.0cvs-1 (a tar ball date 2003/07/16, most recent
> one I could find at savannah.gnu.org).
>
> That GCL can't load defsystem.lisp r1.12 -- it dies with:
> Error: "COMMON-LISP" is not of type (LISP:OR LISP:SYMBOL LISP:STRING
> ...).
> (BTW is that a bug in defsystem.lisp r1.12 ?)
> So I went back to defsystem.lisp r1.11 and GCL can load that OK.
>
> When I execute make, it goes along for a while, then stops with:
>
> Loading binary-gcl/numerical/f2cl-lib.o
> sqrt is undefined
> Error: Cannot get relocated section contents
>
> I type "(quit)" and then it goes along some more, and stops with:
>
> Loading binary-gcl/command-line.o
> Error: #<@084E7000> is not of type LIST.
>
> After "(quit)" it goes into the texinfo stuff.
>
> f2cl-lib.lisp (r1.5) is up to date, but there is a more recent
> command-line.lisp, so I got that. The newer version (r1.2)
> has the same problem.
>
> Is there an easy way to patch f2cl-lib.lisp and command-line.lisp
> to make GCL happy?
>
> I looked through the mailing list archives but I wasn't able
> to identify any solutions. Thanks for any information.
>
> Robert Dodier
>
>
>
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